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In 1892, Alexander Berkman, Russian émigré, anarchist, and lover of Emma Goldman, attempted to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The act was intended both as retribution for the massacre of workers in the Homestead strike and as an incitement to revolution. Captured and sentenced to serve a prison term of twenty-two years, Berkman struggled to make sense of the shadowy and brutalized world of the prison—one that hardly conformed to revolutionary expectation.
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About the Author:
Alexander Berkman was a leading writer and participant in the 20th century Anarchist movement. The young, idealistic Berkman practiced "propaganda by deed" attempting to assassinate Henry Clay Frick during the Homestead Steel Strike of 1892. While imprisoned, he wrote the classic tale of prison life Prison Memoirs of and Anarchist. After his release, Berkman edited Emma Goldman's Mother Earth and his own paper The Blast!. Deported from New York City to his native Russia in 1919, were he saw first hand the failure of the Bolshevik revolution and dedicated himself to writing the classic primer on Anarchism, What is Anarchism?.
Review:
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist is above all else the story of the education of one man.... [We] watch Berkman become humanized, tolerant, able to sympathize with the most diverse and antagonistic individuals.... No other book discusses so frankly the criminal ways of the closed prison society, its homosexuality or extortion. No other political prisoner even remotely approaches Berkman's sympathy for what most of the revolutionaries refer to contemptuously as common criminals. -- Kenneth Rexroth
[Berkman's] prison memoirs are fantastic.... They are absolutely extraordinary. -- Kay Boyle
[Berkman's] prison memoirs are fantastic.... They are absolutely extraordinary. -- Kay Boyle
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- EditoreCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Data di pubblicazione2015
- ISBN 10 1511759968
- ISBN 13 9781511759960
- RilegaturaPaperback
- Numero di pagine400
- RedattoreJonson Will
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